Predicting the viscosity of biodiesel fuels from their fatty acid ester composition

Fuel

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1319-1326

  Allen, C A W ^a   Watts, K C ^a   Ackman, R G ^a   Pegg, M J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DIESEL FUELS; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MIXTURES; NUMERICAL METHODS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

BIODIESEL FUELS; FATTY ACID ETHYL ESTER; LOGARITHMIC MIXTURE EQUATION;

SYNTHETIC FUELS;

EID: 0033190440     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(99)00059-9     Document Type: Article

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